SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing SAP 78 81 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.69% 4.64% 3.85%
As % of the Vendors category 8.40% 10.32% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 68
10th Percentile £413 £374 £425
25th Percentile £478 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £556 £581
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -4.30% +5.68%
75th Percentile £706 £631 £719
90th Percentile £848 £839 £838
Central London median daily rate £553 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +0.55% -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 929 785 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.97% 44.99% 42.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 502 727
10th Percentile £363 £313 £312
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile - £32.09 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.72 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.36 £48.58 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% +134.10% -1.19%
75th Percentile £33.76 £94.69 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £150.38 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.97
% change year-on-year -22.41% +73.08% -11.79%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge 0 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.28%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (39.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.69%) SAP EWM
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (3.85%) SAP PM
3 3 (3.85%) SAP PP
3 3 (3.85%) SAP QM
4 2 (2.56%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.56%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.56%) SAP Retail
4 2 (2.56%) SAP WM
5 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.28%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.28%) SAP PS
5 1 (1.28%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (1.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.26%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (6.41%) Azure
2 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.13%) AWS
4 3 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.85%) OCI
4 3 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.56%) GCP
5 2 (2.56%) GitHub
5 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.56%) Textract
6 1 (1.28%) Boomi
6 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.28%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.85%) Metadata
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.56%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.56%) Tableau
5 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (1.28%) Looker
5 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.28%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) Postman
2 1 (1.28%) Selenium
2 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.28%) TestRail
2 1 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (35.90%) Finance
2 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Banking
4 5 (6.41%) Law
4 5 (6.41%) Legal
5 4 (5.13%) Retail
6 3 (3.85%) Billing
6 3 (3.85%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.79%) Architect
2 15 (19.23%) Consultant
3 12 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
3 12 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (10.26%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.97%) Senior
6 6 (7.69%) Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Lead
6 6 (7.69%) SAP Architect
6 6 (7.69%) SAP Manager
7 5 (6.41%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Functional Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) SAP Project Manager
8 4 (5.13%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.85%) ERP Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.69%) Middleware
2 4 (5.13%) XML
3 3 (3.85%) IDoc
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.56%) boto
4 2 (2.56%) EDI
4 2 (2.56%) JSON
4 2 (2.56%) NumPy
4 2 (2.56%) Pandas
4 2 (2.56%) REST
4 2 (2.56%) SAP ALE
5 1 (1.28%) BAPI
5 1 (1.28%) HTML
5 1 (1.28%) OAuth
5 1 (1.28%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.28%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.28%) SAP TM
5 1 (1.28%) Web Dynpro
5 1 (1.28%) Web Services
5 1 (1.28%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.41%) FMCG
3 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.28%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) IoT
6 1 (1.28%) IPTV
6 1 (1.28%) Life Science
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) New Media
6 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.28%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) ERP
2 22 (28.21%) Migration
3 14 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (14.10%) Roadmaps
5 10 (12.82%) Data Migration
5 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (11.54%) ETL
6 9 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (11.54%) Validation
7 8 (10.26%) Project Management
7 8 (10.26%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (8.97%) Agile
8 7 (8.97%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.97%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (8.97%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.69%) Event-Driven
9 6 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (6.41%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.26%) SQL
2 4 (5.13%) ABAP
2 4 (5.13%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) C#
3 1 (1.28%) Java
3 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.85%) PMP
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) ACCA
5 1 (1.28%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) PhD
5 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 4 (5.13%) GAAP
4 2 (2.56%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) IFRS
5 1 (1.28%) Basel III
5 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.28%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) PMO
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Oracle
2 8 (10.26%) Workday
3 7 (8.97%) Ariba
4 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.13%) Informatica
6 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.56%) Databricks
7 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.28%) Concur
8 1 (1.28%) ESRI
8 1 (1.28%) Google
8 1 (1.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) OpenText
8 1 (1.28%) Planon
8 1 (1.28%) Talend